too 



Fig. 42. Yozia bicoarctata (Blkr.). 



X 4 /.v After specimen of BLEEKER, 



in which the colour was faded. 



with prominent edges. Inter- 

 orbital space broad, a median 

 ridge on occiput and nape. 

 Snout slender, compressed, 

 with a spiny median crest 

 more than twice longer than 

 eye, equal to or somewhat 

 more or less than postorbital 

 part of head. Split cutaneous 

 appendages mesially on back 

 and on the median cristae 

 of trunk. Caudal very small. 

 Brown with 9 12 broad, 

 dark, diffuse crossbands and 

 with light spots along the 

 side or dark brown varie- 

 gated; below operculum 

 with darkish bands. Length 

 303 mm. For other charac- 

 ters see those of the genus. 

 [No specimen from the indo- 

 australian region seen by us]. 

 Habitat: Singapore 

 (DUNCKER 1904). British 

 India, Ceylon, Siam, China, 

 Japan !. 



1 8. Y o z i a Jordan & Snyder. 



(JORDAN & SNYDER, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Wash. SXfS^e^p. 4). 



Slender, elongAtect/Trunk 

 short, in the middle of its 

 length more or less swollen. 

 Shields transversely striated, 

 their edges rounded and 

 smooth or more pronounced 

 and feebly granulated orcre- 

 nulated ; intermedial shields 

 (scutella) oval or angular; a 

 praenuchal and two nuchal 

 shields present. Head not 



